State v. Moore

CRIST, Judge.

Appeal from conviction, after a jury trial, of three counts of sodomy of a child under the age of fourteen, § 566.060.3, RSMo (Cum.Supp.1984), and one count of trespass in the first degree, § 569.140, RSMo (1978). Defendant was charged with breaking down the door of an apartment on January 1,1985, entering that apartment, and thrice sodomizing its sole occupant, an eight year old boy. The acts charged are anal sodomy of the child by the defendant, defendant forcing the child to perform oral sex on him, and defendant committing oral sex on the child. As a prior offender, defendant…